McKee Moments

McKee Moments

McKee Moments

By: Sandy McKee

Sandy McKee is an award-winning sportswriter who covered everything from the Orioles’ last World Series to Wimbledon for the Baltimore Sun and Evening Sun for 36 years. She was on the job for less than two weeks when she experienced her first Preakness as part of the Evening Sun’s coverage team in 1976. While her assignments often took her to other racetracks– she is a member of the International Motorsports Hall of Fame’s writers’ wing – McKee became the full-time horse racing writer in 2006 until she retired in 2012. Now, as a freelance writer, she writes about the racing industry for Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred Magazine and the Maryland Thoroughbred Horsemen’s Association’s Newsletter.

You might think it would be hard to find positives at Pimlico Race Course on a rainy Preakness weekend Friday, with the Black Eyed Susan in the offing and the Preakness just a day away.
But you might...